I neglected the blog again! D: Here’s a new illustration done for Kiseki magazine‘s editorial page. For some reason, I had this idea that things will be much faster in watercolor, and well.. I don’t know if I was right or wrong. Overall the time spent is probably shorter, but when working with watercolor I ended up having to take a lot of pauses in between to wait for the paint to dry, so actually I did the coloring over a few days. As for inking, it’s definitely faster than in the computer! I tried to do it kazuaki’s way, which I once saw in a tutorial, first sketch on paper, then scan and ink on the computer, then print out and ink it again (actually her steps were more complicated since at the end she inked everything again in the computer ==) I think I’m still most comfortable with hand drawing rather than using the tablet, just have a problem with scanning quality.
I think at the end I’m only 70% satisfied with the coloring.. went way overboard with the colors : P I need to work on positive/negative space and just light/shadow in general.
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Errm, just wanted to try typing more about the drawing so it doesn’t seem like just a repeat post of dA XD; Era, put your new pic!!!







